Comments on: Lancelot’s near future…

By: admin

admin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:41:04 +0000

@mad
Well, the only thing I can say is that you should wait.

You /could/ enable building L with the plasma’s extragear by uncommenting the
add_subdirectory(lancelot)
line in applets/CMakeLists.txt
(puck not found would disappear when building along with the rest of plasma’s extragear – I haven’t had the time to write a proper FindPuck cmake script)

But, as I said, it is not advisable yet. When L is near completion, I will ring all the bells

It /is/ usable now, but probably usable only by me

By: mad

mad — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:28:57 +0000

Thanks for your answer. I tried to compile it using cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull ../../lancelot, but when i launch make (after some other errors,for example: ../../../applets/lancelot/tools/puck/puck.py: not found) i’m not able to resolve this one:
undefined reference to `typeinfo for Plasma::BorderLayout’ (or something like that).
Sorry for my long post but i’m very interested finally to try your menu…

By: admin

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:44:28 +0000

@mad
Lancelot is excluded from the build ATM since I have to make some
pretty big bound-to-fail-building changes. And there shouldn’t be
anything in SVN that would make the packages (in this case the
extragear) to fail to build.

I’m not sure when it’ll be over (since Plasma itself is going to
go through some big changes soon), but it will be announced on the
blog.

By: mad

mad — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:34:51 +0000

I’m trying to compile lancelot using kdesvn-build extragear/plasma, but at the end i can’t see the button in “Add Widgets”. What can i do?

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By: Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:55:36 +0000

Lancelot is a big improvement on the step back KickOff. It would be even better if scrolling from menu’s was abolished as a bad idea, when some one is looking at Lancelot that is the only thing they are concentrating on and it is a very temporary in that it isn’t taking any screen real estate when it isn’t being used so it can be as large as is needed without having any negative impacts. With this in mind Lancelot shouldn’t have a set size and should scale with the amount of entries it has to display purely because as some many have objected to KickOff it is just easier to scan a list by moving your eye than scan a list then scroll then scan again. When Suse did their group studies they must have tested on a group that didn’t work like me and many others.

By: admin

admin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:22:22 +0000

@Sergio Don't sweat about it... I'm always glad to be of some assistance. Cheers!

By: Sergio

Sergio — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:20:29 +0000

Thank you Ivan.

It’s working now.

Keep up the good work, and sorry to take your time at this hour

Sérgio

By: admin

admin — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:11:17 +0000

@Sergio No need to reinstall the dbus to another location. Just copy org.kde.lancelot.service file to /usr/share/dbus-1/services

By: Sergio

Sergio — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:07:52 +0000

Yes, I can see the button. And the problem could be dbus. I installed it on /usr and kde is in my home directory. I’ll reinstall dbus on my kde home/test directory.

Thanks for the info.

Sérgio